[sdiy] Good news -- the ICM7556 dual timer made it!

[Harry Bissell Jr]

what's wrong with that ?   During the big Midwest
blockout of last year (or so) I started 'jonesing'
after a couple of days.  I took an old electric
soldering iron, and heated it with a propane torch
(knowing how grandpa did it :^).   I made some clever
units with a 9V battery snap, a series resistor, and
a ultrabright white LED.   Instant portable emergency
flashlight.

Made one for the neighbors as well (who were keeping
all our food alive with a small generator).

Half hour later, power was restored. Coincidence ?
You be the judge !

H^) harry



--- "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net> wrote:

> When I took "Radio-TV Shop" in high school we used
> 100W irons.  But that was 
> nothing compared to the unit that my grandfather
> had,  the "tip" was a 
> _pound_ of copper,  connected by over a foot of iron
> pipe to a wooden handle.  
> You'd heat that thing up in a charcoal brazier,  and
> then stick the tip into 
> a block of ammonium chloride "flux" to solder
> something.